re: Any posters out there that feel their student loan debt is "unjust"?

Meh, not too upset about student loans, pretty much knew what I was getting into. More mad that LSU screwed me on OOS tuition. Qualified to have it waived had I applied straight out of high school, but one semester in as a transfer student I got nothing.

Went to school and didn't pay a dime #ROTC

Holy shite how is that possible?

This thread is depressing.
I'm just a damn ATM provided by God

It blows but it will pass.

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Wait. Do you think that student loan interest is compound interest?

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When you don't pay anything on your loans for 5-6 years while you are in undergrad and grad school, the interest is certainly compounding.

By definition- This addition of interest to the principal is called compounding.

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People know the cost of school going in and are not coerced in any way to take loans.

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I kind of disagree.

You are indirectly coerced because our society has convinced everyone from a very young age they HAVE to go to college to get a good job.

Its a lifetime of brainwash coercion.

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convinced everyone from a very young age they HAVE to go to college to get a good job.

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Society has convinced me that I need a BMW and a Rolex. I'm going to take out a personal line of credit and when I can't pay it, I'll call it unjust.

I made the loan so it on me to pay it off. The problem is that you have retarded people taking out way more than they should ever need to attend college. When I graduated from a state institution in 2007 I owed $18,000. I was penalized and not able to consolidate my loans because I did not borrow more than $20,000. So my interest rates fluctuated year to year. I only took out enough to pay for the year and I worked a full time job while going to school the full time. I paid off the last of my loan last January because we had our first child on the way and we had the money and it would save us 250 per month on our bills. You would have thought I was asking for the lady's first born just to get what my payoff would be that day so I could make the payment.
At the time my payoff was a little north of $4,000 and the lady told me that I had 48 more payments before payoff I ran the numbers in my head and I saved myself over 4,000 dollars in interest by paying it off when I did. I understand some people will have hard times paying back their loans because they choose a degree program with limited opportunities and even worse pay scales. No student loan debt should be forgiven unless there is a program already on the books. The students already have zero money management skills and by basically writing off their loans, they will think that the government will help them out when their car bill is late.
Change the system weed out people who no business being in college and steer them towards a trade school or something along those lines. I am someone who never should have went to college because it was not interested and never really applied myself and probably would have been happier being a welder instead of in business until I got my current job which combines blue collar and white collar facets. College isn't for everyone.

I don't think society has brainwashed us into thinking we need to go to college to succeed. I think it's brainwashed people into thinking they are entitled to go to college because manual labor is below them. Blue collar work has always been there and will always be there providing just as much of a livelihood as any college grad can make. But, that's not what people want. Most people would much rather sit behind a computer than be a plumber. And we've created a system that people feel entitled to 4 more years of education.

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Education is a right and should be provided for free imo

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Well, it is provided through 12th grade.

That's a lot of free education.